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Technic Sets to Use for Educational Kits
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lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 6 Mar 2000 20:03:45 GMT
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I'm helping a professor I work for develop a robotics course for the fall (a
college level course for upperclass students and a handful of graduate
students). We like LEGOs a lot and are planning on having students construct
LEGO/HandyBoard robots in the class. Right now I'm trying to figure out what
components we should buy to assemble kits for the students to use and I'm
wondering what Technic sets to purchase to use in the kits. We need a large
assortment of beams, gears, plates, axles, and connectors as well as some
wheels. We'd rather not buy a set that was mostly fluff (we don't need a lot of
flex tubing or figures or stuff like that). As it stands right now we can spend
a couple hundred dollars per kit just on LEGOs. These are the sets I was
thinking of combining to form a kit:
8462 - Tow/Crane Truck - 773 pieces - $122US
http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=8462
This is one of the sets used in the KIPR Robotics kit which we have been using.
It has wheels, turntable, lots of beams and gears, and a pneumatic tank (it
does not have a full pneumatic system, just the tank, correct?). I'm definitely
leaning towards using this set in the kit, it seems very complete and filled
with mostly useful parts (not a lot of fluff).
8446 - Crane/Demolition Truck - 573 pieces - $63US
http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=8446
Has six Mars Explorer wheels, some beams, some gears, some fluff. Hard
to tell from picture on brickshelf.com - is it worth buying this? I really like
these wheels.
I don't see any other sets in the current catalog that would be very useful.
Should we just give each group 2 8462s? Any suggestions about these sets or
ideas on other sets would be greatly appreciated.
Thx!
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